My Country – Lochner & Judges and Social Legislation Although I mentioned yesterday that Douglas quit his March 1 entry without talking about how courts would later look at regulations, he started where I finished. Justice Douglas notes that for nearly the next sixty years, legislation was declared unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. He listed: a …
For a month now, I have written this daily blog to help me remember the greatness of this country and the Constitution. Though the writings of Justice Douglas and the myriad of documents online, I remain invigorated by the spirit of America in the face of horrors and authoritarianism. Like the subject of today’s almanac …